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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Closed syllable






2. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






3. Ability to understand and express spoken language






4. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






5. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






6. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






7. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






8. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






9. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






10. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






11. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






12. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






13. Feeling through fingertips






14. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






15. English as a second language






16. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






17. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






19. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






20. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






21. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






22. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






23. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






24. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






25. r-controlled syllable






26. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






27. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






28. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






29. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






30. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






31. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






32. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






33. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






35. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






36. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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37. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






38. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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39. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






40. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






41. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






42. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






43. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






44. Academic Language Therapy Association






45. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






46. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






47. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






48. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






49. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






50. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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